May Recommendations: baby lettuce, rocket, and corn salad for high-quality production
May represents a strategic period for spring–summer sowing, when the choice of varieties becomes essential to ensure uniformity, productivity, and leaf quality. The Smarties.bio offering stands out for its complete range dedicated to baby leaf production and intensive cycles, with particular focus on baby lettuce, wild rocket, and corn salad, key crops for this time of year. The varieties selected for May are ideal for coping with rising temperatures, while maintaining excellent field performance and consistent results.
At Smarties.bio, we have selected our recommended products for the month of May, with a special focus on baby lettuce, rocket and corn salad seeds.
Baby Lettuce Range: focus on Albaverede
The Smarties.bio baby lettuce range is designed for professional baby leaf cultivation; the varieties are developed to ensure leaf quality and adaptability across different production cycles. Albaverede fits perfectly into May sowings thanks to:
- Excellent growth uniformity
- Dark green leaves with serrated edges
- Strong upright habit
- High yields
These characteristics make it an ideal choice for fresh market production, where visual appearance and shelf life are key factors.
Rocket Range: once again, Touche
Among wild rocket varieties, Touche stands out as one of the most high-performing selections for warm cycles. This variety is characterized by:
- High resistance to bolting
- Excellent tolerance to Fusarium and good resistance to Bremia
- Dark green, serrated, and fleshy leaves from the first cut
- Excellent tolerance to high temperatures
The leaf structure also provides good resistance to mechanical processing, making Touche rocket particularly suitable for professional production and repeated harvesting. Available both as raw seed and in multiseed(32 seeds).
Corn Salad Range: our summer variety XS113
XS113 completes the May selection with an ideal solution for spring and summer cycles. This type is characterized by:
- Compact and high-yielding rosette
- Extremely tollerant to over maturity
- Thick and crunchy leaves even post-harvest
- Good resistance to cotyledon yellowing
Thanks to these qualities, XS113 is perfectly suited for baby leaf production, maintaining high quality standards even as temperatures rise.
Plan today to harvest value tomorrow
Each season brings its own opportunities. Choosing the right varieties at the right time means optimizing yield, quality, and economic results. For more information about our baby lettuce, rocket, and corn salad range, the Smarties.bio team is available to support you in selecting the best solution for your production needs.
May has begun, time to sow strategy. 🌱